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Article #20125Printing Word Doc w/out Word - Summary
From: David Lassner
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1987 02:56
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1987 02:56
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In article <918@uhccux.UUCP> I asked:
>I've got a one-page Word 3.01 document with some fancy
>formatting: side-by-side paragraph-graphics, boxes, bars,
>and a MacDraw picture pasted in. I'd like to distribute
>it on diskette for people to print on their own printers,
>but obviously can't give out Word. It won't paste into
>MacPaint or MacWrite properly, and can't be converted into
>ASCII text. Any ideas?
The suggestions came in basically two categories:
1) Use Glue; and 2) Distribute the PostScript source.
Glue works very well, but for this application I'm not really
interested in licensing the ImageViewer application to
distribute with the document. I neglected to mention that my
document was in landscape mode, but it turns out that the
Glue-generated MacPaint image can't be read into MacPaint (or
SuperPaint) properly.
So my solution is to distribute:
1) the original Word document, in case the recipient has
access to a system with Word; and
2) the postscript file, generated from Word with Command-F,
and the (free) SendPS application which can be used if the
recipient has access to a LaserWriter.
Thanks all, for the help.
--
David Lassner, University of Hawaii Computing Center, 808/948-7351
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